Stephen Schneider

May 8, 2014

Science

(1945-2010)

California Connection:

Served on the faculty of Stanford University from 1992 – 2010

Achievements:

One of the world’s top climatologists, Stephen Schneider took a
leading role in educating the public about the role of greenhouse
gas emissions in global warming and in promoting a switch to
clean energy.

In hundreds of scientific papers and books, Schneider wrote on
the effects of climate change on areas as diverse as politics and
wildlife. He advised the administration of every president from
Richard Nixon to Barack Obama. As a member of a United Nations
panel on climate change that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
with former Vice President Al Gore, he helped write papers that
were influential in framing the climate-change discussion.

Schneider was the founder and editor of the journal Climatic
Change. He was Professor of Environmental Biology and Global
Change at Stanford University, a Co-Director at the Center for
Environment Science and Policy of the Freeman Spogli Institute
for International Studies and a Senior Fellow in the Stanford
Woods Institute for the Environment. He also served as Chair of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Section
on Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences.